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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Hello everyone, a friend and I were talking...ok, so we were Facebook messaging, lol, and we came up with a fun challenge between us. We decided we would take turns each month and send each other an element that could be used in card making. It doesn't matter if we hate it or love it, we still had to use it, lol.

My friend is Jammie (pronounced Jamie) Clark and she is from Idaho (potatoes anyone?) LOL! Jammie is great and has a fantastic sense of humor lol. She and I send jokes about each others countries back and forth all the time, eh? Jammie's blog is www.jammied.com and you can go and visit and see if you can determine what our element is this month :)

So, I decided not to make a card...rebel, I know. I have a bunch of these little notebooks that I wanted to get started on for craft fairs, and this gave me the perfect opportunity to get them started!

So, that is my project for this month for our fun and friendly challenge. Stay tuned next month when Jammie and I create something with an element that I sent her from Canada ;) You never know what we'll come up with!

I colored this image using my Prismacolor Premiere Pencils on hot pressed water color paper. I love pencils on this paper, it seems to have just the right amount of tooth to it, and the pencils blend just beautifully.

I stamped the tulips and masked them off to be able to stamp them three times in total to look like a row of tulips.

You can find the linked items in Noelle's online shop at Quick Creations. Come and join in the monthly challenge, there is a new one starting soon!

I created this card using paper from the My Mind's Eye "Cowboy" collection, some flowers and bling from my stash and the CC Designs Scalloped Circles die set. The sentiment is from the My Creative Time "Believe in Your Dreams" stamp set.

I colored her using my Copics, Prismacolor markers and Prismacolor Premiere Pencils in the following colors:

Friday, August 26, 2016

HI! I have another Friday Feature card for you today using Derwent Inktense pencils :) SPOILER ALERT****these MAY just be my favorite of the five pencil brands...but are you really surprised? LOL!

I also think this may be favorite card out of the five lol. I just love the way it turned out. The flower stamp is an unamed STampin' Up I believe (if you recognize it please let me know lol) and the sentiment is from the Stampin' Up Set "Yippee Skippee".

All five of these cards have been embossed before watercoloring. For card work, I just find it that much easier and faster to watercolor when the image is embossed.

Next week, I will have Prismacolor Watercolor pencils to pay with so come back and check it out!

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

I have created this card for you today using a background that I previously made using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors. I created some texture on the background using the honey comb stamp and Pumice Stone Distress Ink and Fossilized Amber with the Flourish stamp from the "Cherish" set. I used the Honey Bee "Cherish" stamp set sentiments to create the two rows of sentiments and added some of the little bee and mini honey comb stamps in there too. Then I stamped the flowers and watercolored them using Fossilized Amber and Vintage Photo Distress Inks. I fussy cut the flowers out and layered them with dimensional adhesive so they stuck out from the page.

This is such a versatile stamp set, you can do just about anything with it!

Saturday, August 20, 2016

I created this card using paper from the My Mind's Eye "Collectable" collection. I used the LDRS Creative "Gilded Doily" die and the Lala Land Crafts "Lattice Border" die, as well as a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn "Scripty Sayings" stamp set. I finished it with some enamel dots from the Prima Marketing "Everyday Vintage" collection and the Simple Stories "Carpe Diem" collection.

I colored her up with my Copics,Prismacolor markers and Prismacolor Premiere pencils inthe following colors:

Monday, August 15, 2016

She is so sweet! And you can find the rubber stamp of her in the online shop at Paper Nest Dolls :)

To create this card, I used paper from the My Mind's Eye "Blush" collection as well as some sequins and flowers from my stash. The sentiment is from an unknown stamp set that I have in my stash lol, sorry, I have no idea what company it's from...I know, bad, bad, bad.

I colored her using my Copics and Prismacolor Premiere pencils in the following colors:

Saturday, August 13, 2016

OK, seriously, I fell in love with Gorjuss girls early on in my coloring career. A new friend who introduced me to the stamp coloring world said to me you need to find your style. I took one look at Gorjuss girls and said: I FOUND IT! Hahahaha. So, now they have come out with these Gorjuss minis, and they are every bit as sweet as the full size ones :)

These stamps are so sweet, and of course since I very clearly suffer from Full Set syndrome, I had to have them all lol. Good thing they are fairly easy on the pocketbook ;)

I also used the LDRS Creative Gilded Doily die and a Petaloo Burlap Bloom to create this card, along with some paper and flowers from my stash. I printed the sentiment out on my computer, and it is a well-known saying, you can find it just about anywhere online.

I colored this Gorjuss Girl in my Copics and Prismacolor Premiere pencils in the following colors:

Friday, August 12, 2016

Hello everyone, I have a new feature set for you for the next five Fridays! I have done a comparison of five different sets of watercolor pencils. No, I don't have the full sets of each of these (except Prima ;)) Each set is a small set that I have acquired over the years, some I have purchased, and some were gifted to me, and each has it's own unique set of pros and cons. I will touch on a couple of these in each of the five blog posts :)

The first one I have for you is Staedler Karat Aquarell. This was a nice set, however I found the leads very hard. The colors are fairly bright, but not as bright as I like them.

The set I purchased about 4 years ago is very small, so I needed to pick an image I could color with a very limited palette (I think there may be 6 pencils in this set lol). This stamp is the Large Thistle Flower from The Rubber Cafe. The ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.

Stop by next Friday for another review, this time of Staedler Ergosoft Aquarell :) See you soon.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Hello everyone, we have a fun blog hop planned for you for the next two days :) We have all created using the NEW Paper Nest Dolls exclusive images for Quick Creations :)

Before I show you my creation, I want to make sure you have come here from the Quick Creations blog, where Noelle has posted her creation for the hop. If you didn't start there, please go back and do that :) In order to be eligible to win the prize, you must comment on every blog in the hop!

Friday, August 5, 2016

This is last watercolor card for the Friday Feature series, until next week when I start the watercolor pencil comparison!

I created the background for this card using, you got it...my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors once again lol. I stamped the sentiment first and embossed it with silver embossing powder from recollections. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp, CL351. Sorry, I don't know the name and I couldn't find it on their website. If you know the name of this stamp, pleas let me know in the comments section and I'll add it to the post.

The sequins are from my stash, and the ribbons are from my local Dollarama, lol. I can be a very thrifty shopper :)

So, that is the last of the easy but effective watercolor cards, but next Friday I will be starting a five week series on watercolor pencil comparisons. I am looking forward to showing you what I have created, I hope you are looking forward to seeing them!

You can find this sweet stamp and many more in the Paper Nest Dolls online shop :) Check soon for more inspiration from our talented design team, and don't forget to join in the challenge! The theme is always Anything Goes!